Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 18 Aug 90 18:13:56 GMT References: <3827@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Suppose someone at uhnix1.uh.edu wanted to send mail to someone at > sugar.hackercorp.com. What do you think their mail router should do? > If uhnix1.uh.edu cares enough, and is capable of it, they should act > as though they were an MX for sugar.hackercorp.com. Uh, huh. In fact they should do that for any site that's accessible via local calls. Which they do. The easy way to do this is run pathalias for local sites (say, Houston). But the point in question is that having an FQDN doesn't mean you're on the internet. Simple point. Why do people keep forgetting it? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com